Keeping Warm Indoors

My daughter has very cold hands in the winter, and her office is definitely not over-heated. When she told me that she had to type a bit, then sit on her hands to warm them up, then type, I knew she needed some fingerless gloves for working. Last year I made my husband a pair, and he now brings them back and forth from work (need to get a second pair for him also). Even though I had been promising her flap mittens, I thought that these were in order first.

A simple pattern. Since I am a numbers person, all multiples of 4. Adjust lengths as needed…

FINGERLESS MITTS

Use a fingering weight yarn of your choice

Size 1 needles

Cast-on 48 sts, join in a round

K2, P2 for 24 rows

K 12 rows St st.

Increase for thumb gusset as follows:

K 23, PM, inc 1 st (by lifting up bar below)

K2, inc 1 st, PM

K23

Knit next round plain (26 sts, 4 for thumb)

Increase row by doing one increase inside each marker

Knit 1 row plain

When there are 22 sts for thumb, place thumb sts on holder after st st row

Great idea–wondering if I could make these? Still not very good at reading patterns. I started my first knitting class–she is just having us practice, practice, practice. I am anxious to start on the project.